Stone Arabia is Dana Spiotta’s third novel. The time has come to call her one of our best writers. In Stone Arabia, a woman named Denise describes the slow deterioration of her family: her aging mother, daughter Ada, and her brother, a musician named Nik Worth, who rejects a career as a pop star to [...]
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Watch A Book
Here’s something I love that has come out of our weirdo digital age: book trailers. Sort of like mini-movies, these small little snippets are meant to take us inside the action of a book and want to read it, in much the same way a movie trailer does. Some of them are very smart and [...]
Ethan Hon on Sherry Mills
Sherry Mills is an artist in New York. She is the subject of a documentary by Nathalie Michel. Her latest project “Perspective” will open on June 30th at Rogue Gallery in Chelsea. More information is available via the artist’s website: www.sherrymills.com Ethan Hon is from Omaha, Nebraska. He is the co-founder of JERRY: A Magazine and [...]
Patterns and symptoms…
Cherry Pickman lives in Brooklyn, New York. She’s at work on her first collection of poems.
Murray Spalding
An Eastern-inspired teacher once taught me that a mandala is an illustration of one’s universe, with each ring depicting a different layer of one’s being—one’s place within his or her environment. So, when I sat down with my colored pencils to sketch my own mandala, naturally I created swirling images of a high school student’s [...]
Dossier Asks: Tell Us About Your First Time….
Laura Goode is the author of Sister Mischief. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and JERRY. She lives in San Francisco.
Bruce Smith and the Devotions
Bruce Smith’s new collection of poems is extraordinary and it’s out this month from University of Chicago Press. Devotions is Bruce’s sixth collection, his most recent being Songs For Two Voices and The Other Lover, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award. But let’s not forget about The Common Wages, his early work, which [...]


